10. The hate you give by Angie Thomas

The story majors on racism, the hate that springs and grows in the heart of the one’s experiencing Racism’.

11. The blacker the berry

It’s a story about an African American girl child named “Emma Lou Morgana” who embraced the fact that she was black, but she hated her skin color, All hope from family members and folks to encourage her to embrace her skin color was futile.

12. The bluest eye

It’s a book by Tony Morrison about an African-American girl named ‘Pecola’ who refused to accept her identity as a black woman but wished she was a white girl with blue eyes, a definition of beauty, she had designed for herself.

13. Beloved by Toni Morrison

It’s about an African-American woman called Sethe who had experienced and had seen the anguish and sorrow that came from being a child slave.

Sethe decided to kill her children, in other to protect them from being enslaved. It was a very difficult decision for her, but she had to do it.

Her two sons and a daughter escaped death but her last child “beloved” died from it. The family was haunted continuously by a ghost they felt was ‘beloved’.

14. Up from slavery

A book written by Booker T Washington is a book about the author. The author explains the difficulty he faced as a child slave and also the challenges he overcame to be educated.

15. Fire shut in my bones by Charles M. Blow

The book focuses on the challenges the author faced as a child being a victim of childhood rape and how he came to the reality of his bisexuality.

The book was written for as many that are going through similar case.

16. The invisible man by Ralph Ellison

It’s about the struggles of an African-American man.
The struggles of wanting to be seen, heard and accepted in the 1920’s when racism was a very critical matter.